Why museums matter. Lockdown special of @artfund Meet Me At The Museum with #OliviaLaing @greatwomenart @magwagdirector @mimauseful I’m on this talking about the place I love & the people - artists, Tees Valley residents, thinkers, makers - who make it. https://t.co/vaLzKWgRUR

Ive very pleased to announce that my new exhibition "First Night / Last Night" hosted by PINK COLLAR GALLERY, curated by Michaela Wetherell is now live. https://t.co/ahSQa6P6Wk @the_Crack @invisiblebrit @guardianculture @bbcarts @BoroFactory @NavigatorNorth @disabilityarts

Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 2021 - Jerwood Arts

GREETINGS FROM... Readers of MIMAZINA @mimauseful from outside the Tees Valley: Send us a 'postcard' (in email form) with some facts about your home and updates on what you've been up to. Submit to: info@foundationpress.org We'd love to hear from you. DO IT!🍦

I sing a Wilco song to my partner to try to work out which one it is and he’s convinced I’m humming Private Dancer by Tina Turner... might need to get out more.

So charmed by Sheila Hicks talking about her work on a virtual studio visit last night. It’s so great to see/hear artists handling and describing their work. Joyful image conjured of her son using one piece as a giant rope swing. @AICA_UK

Artist Seth Pimlott reports on gallery education programmes in the time of lockdown @ArtMonthly. Featuring my colleague Claire talking about @mimauseful commitment to working with schools. Such a hard time for so many; we need our imaginative spaces more than ever. @sethpimlott

What do you care about from the Tees Valley? Tell us about the secret gems that you love. So far we’ve heard about orchids, Anish Kapoor’s Temenos, broken pottery and an incredible Play Bus that used to do the rounds... what’s next?? #MIMAZINA #FoundationPress

Incredible piece by @HarunMorrison on @intl_online, navigating the long histories of current debate around institutions & monuments through silken webs of Anansi the trickster spider. ‘Anansi migrated to the Americas on the tongues of those in the belly of slave ships...’

Just ordered The Colour of Madness, edited by Samara Linton and Rianna Walcott after listening to Nila Gupta's great review on @disabilityarts #NilaGupta @stirlingpub https://t.co/81KYelotci

We'd like to invite local children age 11 & under with their adults to take part in #DiscoveratHomeArtsAward. A 6 week digital summer adventure that brings arts & culture to you at home. To take part in this FREE award email I.J.Smith@tees.ac.uk #arts https://t.co/hxglF0398w

This means so much to me 📣👀💚👇🥁🎶 Thank you Sonia and thank you @ContempArtSoc

*Proud* to be part of Ashleigh’s proudest moments through our work via @mimauseful @AHRC_BAM collaboration with @AnjalieDC & other incredible colleagues. Great interview @AucArt

‘My proudest moments have been the development of... b.Dewitt, the collaborative audit of the Middlesbrough Collection at MIMA, contributing to the Hangar’s publication...& most recently having joined the incredible team at Gagosian Gallery’ https://t.co/zQVQQMmyc3 @mimauseful

New work by artists @jademontserrat @WebbEllisArt who I’ve admired for some time & it’s great to see what they’ve cooked during lockdown. View online. Commissioned by @SMTrust.

Incredible work by Chiara Camoni in the @mimauseful collection shared here with a voiceover by my excellent colleague @heron_olivia. Thanks @ContempArtSoc for the opportunity to look back on this 2019 show.

THIS 👀✍️👂🦻👇opportunity is amazing for writers wanting to hone their skills & develop their voices with support from @AICA_UK. Please pass on @HeyArtWhatsGood @Corridor8 @disabilityarts @DASH_ARTS @mimauseful @NewBridgeBooks @writersblockne @NewWritingNorth

ARTIST CALL OUT: Can’t come to us? We’ll come to you through the power of a virtual studio visit! Book in for a friendly conversation about your practice or project with one of our curators. Click here to find out how: https://t.co/ex3oXcd3ii #artistsupport #MuseumFromHome

Had the honour of writing an opinion piece for @guardian on our current thinking & actions at @mimauseful & the complexities of this moment. ‘We’re wondering how an art institute could function as a network of spaces embedded in people’s lives...’ https://t.co/Ieb7385sLv

Excellent documentary back on @BBCiPlayer from Black Artists & Modernism @AHRC_BAM who we have had the pleasure of collaborating with for the past couple of years @mimauseful. Check it out & learn more about Black artists in public collections.

Go Jess! 50 years since the Education (Handicapped Children) Act which aimed to ‘make provision... for discontinuing the classification of handicapped children as unsuitable for education at school...’ Such an important anniversary not known to me before our studio visit.